Hi Gang,

I'm making an effort to squeeze a town with some elements of Craigmont
and Cottonwood into a too small corner of my layout. To this end I've
been studying some maps of Craigmont, and I noticed that the only
trackage shown for the Nezperce RR is the line into town, a wye, and a
connection to the CSP. No spurs or sidings are shown. Both the USGS
map and Dave Clemens' map in the 1998 MR Planning show this. Are these
maps correct? I re-read John Henderson's story describing the "one-man
dutch drop", and in it he mentioned that the engineer put some cars on
their siding. So was there a siding not shown in the maps? Where was
it?

This raises the question of how the Nezperce crew handled the CSP
interchange. Was the interchange track between the Nezperce main and
the CSP long enough to usually hold the entire interchange cut? Did the
CSP crew ever venture down the interchange to pick up or leave cars on
the Nezperce main or siding? Did the Nezperce ever venture up on to the
CSP to do the interchange?

Recently I was looking at a photo taken of Craigmont in 1979 and noticed
two spurs opposite and just west of the depot. Both of these spurs
appear to serve the Standard Oil bulk plant, but the maps I've seen just
show one Standard Oil spur. Jim M, can you shed some light on this?
Also, in the 1979 photo, the bulk plant appears to be serving as a
fertilizer dealer. Any idea when the change in use (fuel to ag
chemicals) ocurred?

Thanks,

Jim D